Mistletoe Cottage

Architect Charles Alling Gifford designed Mistletoe Cottage. He worked with the architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White in New York City before opening his own firm there. The firm was the primary developer of the Colonial Revival and Shingle styles of architecture in the United States. Gifford was best known as a designer of resort hotels, including Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire (which was owned by Club member, Joseph Stickney) and Clifton Hall in Niagara Falls, New York. He also designed the New Jersey State buildings for the World’s Colombian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis in 1904. Between 1896 and 1900, Charles Gifford was commissioned to design five buildings for the Club and its members. Gifford also designed the Glynn County Courthouse in a Beaux Arts style, which is quite different than the styles he utilized here on the island.